DARING JEWEL ROBBERY
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Published in Die Times.) LONDON, April 4. The most daring jewel coup for yearsr occurred at Euston, when thieves secured two cases of samples worth £30,000, A jewellers’ traveller deposited the cases in the cloak room on Sunday and two similar cases were deposited shortly afterwards the coatents of which were valueless. A man tho following day presented receipts and obtained the jewels. The theft was discovered when the traveller pro sen ted tho genuine receipts. _ . It is suggested that during the ,nig/R the intruder transposed the tickets pasted on tho cases, but Die numbers differed oulv as regards final figures, facilitating'Dm forgery of the receipts.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 6 April 1922, Page 5
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112DARING JEWEL ROBBERY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 6 April 1922, Page 5
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